html.elements.meta.name.color-scheme - Not working in Samsung Internet Browser

[ElManouche]

What type of issue is this?

Incorrect support data (example: BrowserX says "86" but support was added in "40")

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

Samsung Internet Browser has no support for this tag

What browsers does this problem apply to, if applicable?

No response

What did you expect to see?

I expect the browser using my dark mode CSS

Did you test this? If so, how?

Samsung has published the mentioned article, but the prefers-color-scheme does not work, despite the tag

Can you link to any release notes, bugs, pull requests, or MDN pages related to this?

No response

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/meta/name/color-scheme

MDN metadata

MDN page report details

• Query: html.elements.meta.name.color-scheme
• Report started: 2026-03-26T09:38:56.595Z

[caugner]

@ananya-ky Can you confirm?

[caugner]

@ElManouche Are you able to share how you determined that Samsung Internet doesn't support color-scheme? If Samsung Internet behaves different than Chrome Android, Edge Android and Firefox Android, then we might mention this as a note. If the spec explicitly mentions this behavior, we might mark support as partial.

[ElManouche]

After some deep investigation (not documented anywhere) I found out the following:
Samsung Internet ignores CSS color-scheme and media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) because its native "Dark Mode" feature forces an inversion of website colors.
To make the website dark mode working, we need to disable the browser's forced inversion by navigating to Settings -> Webpage view and scrolling -> Dark mode -> Toggle off "Force Dark mode for web content".

[ElManouche]

So it is more a philosophical question to know if you want to add a note or mark the feature as unsupported